A Liberal's Response to Conservative Rants against "Sicko" (Originally Posted, August 11, 2007)
One of the arguments made against ―sicko‖ is that it promotes socialized medicine and is just more ―liberal whining‖. The hard line argument by many conservative critics is that if we go to a system like Canada’s then we will all wait in line for weeks on end and no one will ever get care and then we will all be in the fields harvesting wheat and making substandard toaster ovens in some post-Stalinist nightmare world.
Could it just be that capitalism without checks and balances is fundamentally ―different‖ than what the US once was and the idea of regulatory, best practice oversight is not a bad thing but instead the basis upon which we can make things better?
The health care system in the US is, if not broken, then 75